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Wow, some of you really feel like this unfinanced, unpaid mod-team who work on this in their free time should show government level professionality. I mean, no offense but- No, y'know what? Never mind that last part. All offense meant. You guys are bunch of shlongs. It's a wonder you haven't driven these guys to quit yet. I wish there was some way of preventing everyone here who has done nothing but complain about something that will be distributed for free on the internet when it's done from downloading it.

No, he means the second part of SC 2. It's become a trilogy, or get two expansions or whatever. The first part will feature only the Terran campaign.

The videos were very cool, but the actual in-game cutscenes and most of the dialogue was pretty cringeworthy. And the voice acting. Dear god, the voice acting.

They don't always deliver. WarCraft III had terrible story presentation. At least, I thought so.

Eels' new single, "Fresh Blood" here.

Yesterday I stumbled across the 70's King Kong remake on TV, and Jeff Bridges has a similarily ridiculous beard in it.

I don't know if anybody else had this, but before Knights of the Old Republic was patched, overloading any computer terminal would also overload mine, making it crash.

I've never understood this, myself. Some people rave on about Starcraft but it was just your generic Monster Race vs Human Race vs Super Alien Race filling in archetypes and duking it out. Diablo and Warcraft have utterly generic stories as well, though I don't know if WOW has advanced the latter beyond, say, Guild Wars-style "Tons and Tons Of Generic Fantasy Fare That Is Just There To Fill Its Position". It's just that Blizzard has always been excellent at delivering those stories (e.g. Diablo 2 movie clips were amazing). Even as a Blizzard fan, I agree that their writing isn't as genius as people often claim. Especially about WarCraft. It's a generic story, and since WarCraft III it has become needlessly complicated and convoluted. It doesn't say much good when you twist your own tale so many times you have to start retconning after three installments of your series. And, haha, WoW advancing story? With what? Maybe there's a quest that has you collect history books rather than wolf spleens. However, I don't think you're giving StarCraft enough credit. The setting is pretty generic and some of the sci-fi plot devices were uninspired, but the characters were very believable. Especially considering how much we actually saw of them, and very few games kept me guessing as much as to where the story was going. Betrayals and unlikely alliances left and right; the politics of it was very well done. EDIT: Dammit! That tangent made me forget what I was going to post in this thread in the first place! So here goes: Recently, Blizzard apparently spoke to Microsoft about the possibility of making their next generation console MMO compatible. I suspect that this is literally what's meant with "Next Gen MMO". Which would mean that this other MMO project would not neccesarily mean they're going to kill off WoW like some people here have theorized. So, yeah. ^_^

I found it hilarious, but maybe because Kevin Smith resonates with me more than Judd Apatow. Except Clerks. Clerks is an overrated piece of **** that only impresses with it's budget. Clerks II is hilarious though. "Porchmonkey4Lyfe! That's okay, I'm taking it back!"

Che reincarnated as an Irish drunk!

Yeah, I'm not a game designer but logically it would be a toss-up between getting a general idea of the setting or coming up with interesting an gameplay design.

I spent six hours in public transportation due to train power outages and traffic jammed bus.

Get a large box, put a small litterbox in it and something nice and comfortable like a pillow, put him/her in there at night. I woke up, commuted to my internship workplace, simulated some 3d stuff, listened to some music, read some webcomics and drew some dude I designed like 40 times. Yay for things that take a lot of time like simulation, rendering and compiling!

Eels Live Bootlegs Their live shows are great, always rearranging songs as they would sound like if they were written for that specific tour. COME ON! HEY E! HE LOVES YOU!

Hell I'm staying with beaches regardless of how famous I am.

The combination of seriousness and joking in this post confuses me. Anyway, sympathies to friends, Qui Gonn Jin and other family.

I don't get that channel anyway.

Just the artwork. The gameplay is incredibly fun, adding new elements to classic Castlevania gameplay. (Which one are we talking about here? I'm specifically mentioning Portrait of Ruin).

I think that so far it's looking solidly entertaining. However, I don't see a lot of things that I recognize as jumping out towards fanboys (being a seasoned fanboy myself), and there are barely any points of major criticism. So the vocal minority doesn't have much to comment on. This is not neccesarily a bad thing.

Similarily to another thread, I am going to agree with the part that a lot of women need to stop playing mind games. I have had far too many experiences where women expect certain behavior because somehow (I suspect pop culture is to blame) they feel like there are rules. Some of them are mentally checking things off lists even if they don't realize. I've known girls who would string guys along but not commit to anything until they had asked them out in a particular way with specific words! That's crazy! However, I must also protest the generalization that all women are as described in this thread. I've known plenty of women who aren't like this. Yet for some reason, THOSE are the ones most quickly written off as "crazy". Well, to quote Mark Olivier Everett, "I love crazy women".

Ultimate Mortal Kombat, basically just a port of Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade with Puzzle Kombat added to it, is incredibly entertaining for those times you need to wait for your scene to render or code to compile. Also a game that's entertaining to play at just about any time is N+. There hasn't been a platformer this amusing since the days of the NES. And is it a crime to mention Pok

300 isn't a comedy. It's Frank Miller's interpretation in comic format transferred to film. 300 is a rare, surprisingly good and faithful adaption of the comic. If you read the comic, you would see how good of a film it is. Personally, in 300 I only found proof that comic books and movies are entirely different media in which entirely different things work. As a movie, it didn't. Hell, 300 is basically the reason I have very little interest in the Watchmen movie. Because exact page to film transition looks like a recipe for the ridiculous.

There are loads of good DS games. The Wii is lacking good games. Look at Metacritic's top DS games I respectfully disagree, because I didn't think the ones I played that are on that list (quite a few) are really that good. At least, not so good as to get scores like that. Most of them were pretty disappointing to me, and I end up playing old NES and SNES roms on my DS more than anything else. I have to thank you for this though, because I did in fact not know that Chrono Trigger had been ported to the DS and I will be getting that A.S.A.P.

I've got one of those as well. ^_^

If Obsidian would ever make a DS game it should be because they feel they can make a GOOD DS game. There is a distinct lack of good games on the DS.